whocaresgobobcats
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I don't know why no one mentions that his agents were out looking for new gigs all during his time at UT.
And that's your problem, not his. He never said he was going to. What situations you create in your head he has no control over, nor any responsibility to even entertain.
Exactly.
He has sat on his hands (again) despite a fan uprising (the petition), despite the special circumstances of the Bruce Pearl situation, despite another underachieving performance from Cuonzo's best team.
I can't fathom how people have been enjoying this "gruden-lite" scenario this basketball season. Just goes to show how conditioned our fan base has been to accept coaching changes to the point of lusting after it. I understand that it creates drama, and people love drama. But all it does is hinder the success of the program.
Secondly, why would the AD perpetuate the drama by even addressing the #BBB rumors? Validating the rumors by publicly addressing them, even if the AD shot down the possibility, would've created even more of an uproar.
This. The victim syndrome that we have attributed to Bruce Pearl is unfathomable.
He is going to march down to the Plains today and fill them with the same line of BS (destination job, AU gave me a chance, I love AU, this is my home) that he fed us starting 9 years ago.
He is a salesman, and a really good one. If anyone really believed he was as pro-Tennessee as he portrayed, then you bought his pitch, hook, line, & sinker.
Bruce Pearl is looking out for Bruce Pearl, and he now has a new fanbase to fleece. I wish he had never left, but he is solely to blame for that. He isn't a victim of anything but himself.
(I think it's been great that we've had "Gruden-lite" this offseason with the basketball team).
Hart has failed again.
First, he allowed Bruce to go to a rival. Second, he failed, as with the Gruden rumors, to put the kibosh on the possibility of Bruce coming back home this year.
He would have sat on his hands with Dooley except for the colossal failure to find Rommel. He is sitting on his hands with Cuonzo now. He has articulated no vision for the program.
The only good news is I like our chances of bringing back Bruce next year if we have the season we expect next year. I should say "would" like our chances except for the dynamic duo of Hart & Cheek.
Nothing against Cuonzo. Cuonzo >> Dooley. However, we had the basketball Gruden equivalent in Knoxville (possibly >> Gruden), and the AD has to date seemingly done nothing (again).
Exactly.
He has sat on his hands (again) despite a fan uprising (the petition), despite the special circumstances of the Bruce Pearl situation, despite another underachieving performance from Cuonzo's best team.
:clapping::clapping::clapping:
The only "fleecing" that has been done was with Kiffin, Dooley and, so far, Cupnzo.
Bruce may be a helluva salesman but he actually delivered on his sales pitch.